Our staff has grown in the last two months! A new team member has joined our Eastern Shore office in Patient Services, and a former team member practitioner has returned.
Welcome to Easton, Amanda Herbert! And welcome back to the Baltimore Washington office, Sheryl Sachs, CPO!
Born and raised on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Amanda Herbert received her high school diploma and Cosmetology License back in 2016. After graduating, she had various jobs in the customer service field. These positions gave her an opportunity to learn and improve her customer care skills. She has learned the art of communication in dealing with clients in a varied array of circumstances and is ready to assist our clients in any way she can. She has always loved being able to help people and finds it very rewarding to see clients happy. In her free time, she enjoys game nights with the family, watching movies and spending time with her pets, a dog named Bella and a cat named Indi. She is eager and very excited to be a part of the Dankmeyer team!
Sheryl Sachs is a Certified Prosthetist Orthotist, who has returned to Dankmeyer after a short move to New Jersey. She has been with Dankmeyer since 2011. A native of Baltimore, Maryland, she received a BS in Kinesiology and a BA in Communications from the University of Maryland, College Park. While she was there, she was interested in sports broadcasting, worked as a student athletic trainer, and initially thought she might to pursue a post-graduate degree in physical therapy. Then, she had the opportunity to volunteer at Walter Reed in the Prosthetics Lab and found she loved working with the devices and the patients. She attended the Georgia Institute of Technology where she received her Master of Science in Prosthetics and Orthotics and completed her residencies at Dankmeyer. Sheryl is very active in the O&P field outside of our office. She serves on the executive committee of the NCOPE board, a professional organization that focuses on overseeing the education of new students entering O&P. She is also active with the American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association (AOPA) as a volunteer on their government affairs committee and is passionate about advocacy efforts to help improve patients’ access to care. She is a former marathoner, and in her free time, she enjoys watching sports and spending time with her husband and two children.
We are so happy to have Amanda join our team, and very excited to have Sheryl rejoin us! Say hello when you see them, and Welcome!